The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
